FCC To Monitor Message Boards On The Net

:shock: Commissioner Powell and the FCC in the aftermath of the "Super Bowl half time show" are considering ways to punish sites and broadcasters when "lewd and inappropriate content" reaches the public. One person can record or copy the offense and by letter complain to the FCC or their congressman onthe appporiate committee. licensies can be rovked and fines assessed to site owners. The wide reading of The 1st Amendment may be under attck inthis politically charged environment in an election year.

Future post: "Wow, did you all see the _____(backhand?) of that hot Czech teen at the nadaq 100. boy I'd like to ____ (hit?) with her!" Must run as my office is having the "voluntary" morning prayer meerting."

TW is required to staff a position "FCC CC" (Content Censor). Too much has been slipping in apparanetly and an old lady in Missouri reported the site for sexually racy comments on the WTA.

Is this for real? Movies can show simulated violence, murder in graphic detail; the media glamorizes things gang related to the youth but show a bit of anatomy on TV and the sirens screech aloud as the moral authorities that be decide it's a morally corrupting influence.

This has GOT to be BS.. otherwise, just put a disclaimer on the boards that you're not responsible for content. If even that doesn't work, I'm sure there could be a way to host the forum in my country..

Rabbit, I have a question for you since you're well versed in FCC regulation. Will the networks be banned from airing any WTA match featuring players wearing racy outfits which might offend viewers of shall we say a more sensitive, delicate disposition?

Well... You can't own a gun here without a permit and driving isn't allowed until you're 18. However, one is allowed to drink soft alcoholic drinks at 16 and high percentage ones at 18, smoking pot inot punished and we don't hold someone that provides an opportunity to speak responsible for what is being said.

That is like going to a pub and then sueing the owner because the people next to you were talking about their favourite male strippers..

Rabbit, I have a question for you since you're well versed in FCC regulation. Will the networks be banned from airing any WTA match featuring players wearing racy outfits which might offend viewers of shall we say a more sensitive, delicate disposition?

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Racy outfits will only be banned if Justin Timberlake is attending the tournament.
There are also regulations in the works for men who wear wife-beaters.

First off, if we're referring to the Jackson deal, that was planned, set-up, and posted well before it went off. An organizied effort by the same organizations the FCC desires to give more conglomerative power to not so long ago.

A term we used, I didn't know we invented it. If you ever watch the TV program COPS, you'll notice that the majority, no all of the guys involved in domestic calls either have a) no shirt, or b) a t-shirt with the arms cut out of it. Hence, the term wife-beater. To complete the ensemble, one should have a mullet.

Oh Alan, I live in a Simpson's world. My husband watches them everyday and every Sunday. He regularly quotes Homer as a great American philospher (this is everybody's fault but mine; Jesus, Allah, Buddah, I love you all; Why do we have to go out, we just end up back home again, etc). Did you love the fake Dear Abby letter based on the 'Marge takes bowling lessons' episode of the Simpsons?

Wifebeater refers to white tight-ribbed tank-tops, supposed to be worn as an undershirt but made fashionable by white-tra$h) Ooh, am I allowed to say that FCC? What a joke. Anyway, Kid Rock wears wife beaters all the time.